Wilhelm Robber

Landsknechte at the wayside cross

Wilhelm Räuber (also Wilhelm Carl Räuber, born July 11, 1849 in Marienwerder in West Prussia , † January 25, 1926 in Munich ) was a German portrait, genre and history painter.

Wilhelm robber was the son of Elbing City Council and Kommerzienrates. He began his studies from 1869 to 1870 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Königsberg . In 1872 he moved to Munich and studied from April 26, 1872 to 1876 at the Royal Art Academy in Munich under the direction of Wilhelm von Diez . After graduating, he settled in Munich.

Since 1879 he took part in numerous exhibitions. In 1880 he received the small gold medal at the art exhibition in Düsseldorf, and in 1883 at the international art exhibition in Munich he was also awarded the gold medal.

Wilhelm Räuber was mainly concerned with portrait painting, alongside with landscape, genre and history painting ("The handover of Warsaw to the Great Elector and the Swedish General Wrangel at the end of July 1656", "Gustav Adolf fell in the battle of Lützen", "Demonstration of the Magdeburg hemispheres by Otto von Guerickes", "The conversion of St. Hubertus").

His works are in the collections of the National Gallery in Berlin , the Deutsches Museum and the Neue Pinakothek in Munich.

literature

Robber, Wilhelm . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 27 : Piermaria – Ramsdell . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1933.
Emmanuel Bénézit (founder): Dictionnaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs , 4th edition, Gründ, Paris 1999, volume 11, p. 456

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personal data
SURNAME	Robber, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Robber, Wilhelm Karl; Robber, Wilhelm Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German portrait, genre and history painter
DATE OF BIRTH	July 11, 1849
PLACE OF BIRTH	Marienwerder
DATE OF DEATH	January 25, 1926
Place of death	Munich